On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 21:48:25 GMT, fabioromano1 <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This PR optimizes `BigInteger.pow(int)` method. The primary enhancement in
>> `pow()` is not concerned most on execution time, but rather in memory
>> optimization, because the PR implementation does the "shift of the exponent"
>> squaring the result rather than the base, so the base is not squared like in
>> the current implementation, and this permits to save about half of the
>> memory.
>
> fabioromano1 has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
> commit since the last revision:
>
> Throw away unsignedIntPow(int, int)
src/java.base/share/classes/java/math/BigInteger.java line 2746:
> 2744: if (exp <= maxExp) {
> 2745: // don't use fp arithmetic if exp <= 3
> 2746: xToExp = exp == 1 ? x :
What about pre-seeding the cache with values for 1, 2 and 3? That would allow
unconditionally using fp here (and below)
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24690#discussion_r2062757211
